Code of monuments of folklore of the peoples of Dagestan. In 20 volumes. Volume 1. Fairy tales about animals

The book includes the most famous tales of the animal peoples of Dagestan: Avartsev, Agouls, Dargins, Kumykov, Laks, Lezgin, Nogais, Rutulov, Tabasaranians and Tats. The samples of both the fairy tales about animals and the texts that have preserved the mythological sources of the genre or acquired features of parables, jokes, etc. have been selected. The book presents not only the plot widely known in world folklore, but also their interesting options, versions, as well as peculiar texts, characteristic only for Dagestan. Most of the works in Russian are published for the first time.

For folklorists, literary scholars, ethnographers, culturologists, a wide circle of readers.
The book contains a map of the resettlement of the peoples of Dagestan (according to data at the end of the 20th century) on 1 sheet